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I run the 358156 with gc and powder coated at 1260fps using 2400 from a 2” river. I have not cronoed in. Marlin rifle yet but there is no question when it goes off. The alloy is softer than ww but with just a little copper. It is very very...

You are 100% right, the powder manufacture' techs I spoke with back in 2012 did not know a thing about PC bullets, but they knew what their polymers needed to cure to obtain all the properties their polymers could deliver. The commercial powder...

You should be able to pick up your pace a tad, maybe get the sizing done a wee bit sooner now.
I had a metamorphosis going with my equipment as I kept trying to speed this sizing business up a bit...
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Put a spring around your push post and you won't have to guide the cast with your fingers. Just drop it on the post and size away.
If you use the red container to collect them, put a large rubber band around the container and it won't pop off and...

This old M48 Yugo was given to me by a good friend, still full of cosmoline & in box with bayonet and frog with rod and cleaning bag of goodies. Took some work to get the cosmoline all gone and then I modded it a bit, just to cool the barrel and...

I had been tumbling 3 to 4 hours with a little squirt of dawn and a 1/4 teaspoon of lemonshine (soft water from a well) and then rinsing them in the tumbler, stirring the cases by hand and getting all the dirty wash water out to as clear as I...

Short answer, no. Lopsided cast bullets has nothing to do with alloy, the quality of the mold, the experience of the uses or the casting technique. It is primarily the physics of the cooling of the mold & alloy and the necessary mold tolerance...

I let this little cheapo Lee Chineeee knock-off do all the dirty work, even put a tube in it to drop the spent's into the trash can below.
However, your ingenious, well done fix is a problem that RCBS should'a resolved years ago!

I was not a physics major, but I have had lengthy conversations with physicists discussing the cast bullet problem as well as testing of full power PC bullets. The problem is the rifle bullets, which tend to be much longer in length come out of the...

We have an abundance of black bears where I live.
Just my thoughts on a bear attack. If a bear attacks, it will be at close range, the bear will be coming fast, and you will only have seconds to react.
You have to be able to draw and fire...

So far no bullet has been a feeding problem. The little stubby 103 grain 9mm give me the most grief as there is so little to grab on to, almost as bad as the .22. My square tube drop shoot is held in place by a 65# on/off magnet so it is just a...

Tied drilling first one and it held for a while, but bad choice. Second go round I purchased a five pack of K thermocouples for cheap off Amazon. I cast a couple of them into bullets using a mold cavity. Both of those are working great. I can run...

OS, As usual you reply with plain old common sense and I guess being somewhat anal like myself helps.
I personally just can't grasp the concept of those in a hobby that accept, as Smoke put it, "OK rather than Right". It is their nail to drive...

It's hard to convince someone to buy the best PC they can find because of the price difference over the HF PC, then it's again hard to convince people about the looks of their final product. I suppose an ugly PC'd cast will shoot just a good as one...

Regardless of where you mount the thermocouple and even with a convection oven, if you are doing several racks of bullets the temperature will vary between the racks and on the individual trays.
I have a PID controlled 30" convection oven...

Looks like powder was not cured. Most powders I have delt with require about 20 minutes at 400'F. Let us know if that helps Also you should try some of smokes powders-check vendor section. After trying his powder I have not used any other except...

Peracetic acid (C2H4O3) is a mixture of household white vinegar approximately 4% and 3% standard household hydrogen peroxide at room temperature.
The is a warning posted at the first site mentioned and I agree with it completely: WARNING: I like...

Velocity with properly coated and cured PC is not an issue. I use jacketed load data for PC and the only thing I see is about a 5% velocity increase. I have been doing this since 2012 and haven't bought a bullet since, but 99% of my shooting now...

Properly cured powder coated bullets causing cartridge failure, long term ammo storage problems, eroding gun barrels, global warming, etc. is a horse that is dead and buried as far as I am concerned.
I went to the range last Tuesday and fired...